Ride Solution, Inc.PUTNAM’S COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR
Human Service
“Life is suffering.Suffering demands service.To be of service is to live with purpose.And purpose is beautiful. It brings elation. It brings courage. It allows people to love you, and you fall in love with life as a result of your selfless and wholehearted engagement.”
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Coordinate Advocate
Human Service
Functional Equality Through Action
Concentration and Distribution of Workforce
National Problem
National Solutions10% Increase In Productivity
Note: In the "Actual" line, the bottom two quintiles are not visible because the lowest quintile owns just 0.1% of all wealth, and the second‐lowest quintile owns 0.2%.
Source: Norton & Ariely, 2010
National ProblemWealth Distribution in America
Obstacles to Public Transit
Source: The New York Times, Column; Infrastructure US: How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country Hiroko Tabuchi On Jun 19, 2018 In cities and counties across the country — including Little Rock, Ark.; Phoenix, Ariz.;
southeast Michigan; central Utah; and in Tennessee — the Koch brothers are fueling a fight against public transit, an offshoot of their longstanding national crusade for lower taxes and smaller government…….
The Kochs’ opposition to transit spending stems from their longstanding free-market, libertarian philosophy. It also dovetails with their financial interests, which benefit from automobiles and highways.
One of the mainstay companies of Koch Industries, the Kochs’ conglomerate, is a major producer of gasoline and asphalt, and also makes seatbelts, tires and other automotive parts. Even as Americans for Prosperity opposes public investment in transit, it supports spending tax money on highways and roads.
“Stopping higher taxes is their rallying cry,” said Ashley Robbins, a researcher at Virginia Tech who follows transportation funding. “But at the end of the day, fuel consumption helps them.”
Detroit Dynamics
Regional Population and Rural Funding Shortfall
County2014 Total
Population 2014 TD
Population % TD
Population 2013 Funding $/TD Capita
Duval $/TD Capita
EquivalentIncrease
Factor Increase $
Duval NTD 1,065,219 Duval AOR 885,855 306,384 29% $ 108,036,202 $ 352.62 Clay 196,399 58,379 30% $ 2,287,329 $ 39.18 Clay/Duval 1,082,254 364,763 34% $ 110,323,531 $ 302.45
Baker 27,013 8,727 32% $ 663,144 $ 75.99 $ 2,639,504 3.98 $ 1,976,360 Bradford 26,850 10,005 37% $ 632,519 $ 63.22 $ 3,026,039 4.78 $ 2,393,520 Columbia 67,543 25,314 37% $ 2,213,929 $ 87.46 $ 7,656,286 3.46 $ 5,442,357 Nassau 75,710 19,464 26% $ 1,007,148 $ 51.74 $ 5,886,938 5.85 $ 4,879,790 Putnam 72,577 44,482 61% $ 2,089,151 $ 46.97 $13,453,698 6.44 $ 11,364,547 Union 15,136 5,073 34% $ 400,571 $ 78.96 $ 1,534,342 3.83 $ 1,133,771
Rural Totals 284,829 113,065 40% $ 7,006,462 $ 61.97 $39,868,639 5.69 $ 32,862,177 % Duval 32% 37% 6%
Regional Total 1,367,083
Public Transit Legacy Funding
Obstacles to Public Transit
Bo Johnson Goes To Jail Today Ex-speaker Is To Serve 2 Years For Tax-evasion Conviction August 30, 1999|By Mike Oliver of The Sentinel Staff The prison door will slam shut today on former House Speaker Bo
Johnson as he begins serving a two-year sentence for tax evasion.
Federal officials aren't saying where Johnson is going, but most likely it will be to a minimum-security federal prison near his Panhandle hometown of Milton, such as Eglin Air Force Base or a facility in Pensacola.
Taxi Industry & Transportation Network Companies (TNC)
Obstacles to Public Transit
Chapter 427 F.S. &
Coordination
Coordinate
By William & Budd Bell, 1979
Coordinate
Barry Manor Bus Shelter
Industry Standard
Coordinate
23 foot van cutaway with 12 ambulatory and 2 wheelchair positions
Advanced Low Floor Bus
Coordinate
26 foot, 25 ambulatory or 5 wheelchairs
Advocate
2019 Florida State Budget
From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1855, $2,300,000 of nonrecurring funds is provided to community
transportation coordinators who operate in counties that are not direct recipients of funding under t6he
Urbanized Area Formula Program set forth in 49 U.S.C. section 5307 (Senate Form 2230). Funds are to be
used to provide transportation services for persons with disabilities, older adults, and people with low
income so that they may access health care, employment, education, and other life-sustaining activities.
Funds allocated for this purpose shall be distributed among community transportation coordinators
based upon the Transportation Disadvantaged Trip and Equipment allocation methodology established
by the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged.
1855 SPECIAL CATEGORIES
GRANTS AND AIDS – TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED
FROM TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED TRUST FUND………………59,906,668
AdvocateMonthly Flex-Route Bus Pass
TD = Low IncomeElderlyDisabled
Contact
Boyd Thompson Director of Operations Ride Solution, Inc. [email protected] 386.325.9999